Hours after being traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to the New England Patriots, A.J. Brown answered questions about his relationship with ex-teammate Jalen Hurts.
Brown said he and Hurts are not as close as they used to be. However, he insisted there are no hard feelings.
“Not as close as we once were. I believe that is fine,” Brown told Maria Taylor on Tuesday. “It is like there is no bad blood. There is actually still a lot of love. I love him to death. I wanted to see and accomplish all the things that he wanted to accomplish.”
Brown said he never understood why so many people focused on their relationship.
“Looking back on it, we haven’t been as close as we were a couple of years now, but that didn’t stop anything. We still competed, we still pushed each other. We still led the team.
“People just got so fixated on the relationship. I am gonna say it to you, I’m gonna say it on camera, I got nothing but love for him. I wanted him to do well and accomplish everything his heart desires.”
When asked why their relationship changed, Brown said there was no major reason.
“Nothing happened. Nothing happened,” Brown said. “People just grow apart.”
He also denied any rumors involving their families or personal lives.
Brown and Hurts were teammates from 2022 to 2025. In 2022, they led Philadelphia to an NFC Championship crown. They won the Super Bowl together in the 2024 season.
A.J. Brown is Over the Moon to Reunite With Mike Vrabel
Speaking to Maria Taylor on June 2, A.J. Brown showcased a New England Patriots rug that he admitted to keeping in his house for years despite playing for Philadelphia.
“This is my team. This is my team since I was a kid,” Brown said. “I was doing what I was supposed to be doing with the Eagles, but this is it.”
He also opened up about being a childhood Patriots fan and famously crying when New England passed on him to draft N’Keal Harry in 2019.
A.J. Brown played under Mike Vrabel for three seasons with the Tennessee Titans from 2019 to 2021.
The Titans drafted Brown in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft, right in the middle of Vrabel’s tenure as Tennessee’s head coach. Together, they had a successful run before Brown was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022.
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